BETTYE LAVETTE brings the British Invasion home to its American R&B roots on her latest CD, INTERPRETATIONS: THE BRITISH ROCK SONGBOOK. While BETTYE's Grammy-nominated 2007 disc The Scene Of The Crime went to the source to find triumph over her own anguish, INTERPRETATIONS looks to the past this time for inspiration and uncovers common ancestry in seemingly divergent musical paths. Produced by BETTYE, Rob Mathes and Michael Stevens, the album is a 13-song journey through compositions by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd among others, before concluding right where the very idea for INTERPRETATIONS started: BETTYE's visceral show-stopping rendition of The Who's "Love Reign O'er Me" from the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors, which appears here as a bonus track. That performance - which first brought BETTYE together with Stevens (the event's producer) and Mathes (its musical director) - served notice that BETTYE is no mere singer. As an extraordinary interpreter of song, she doesn't merely mold a piece of music to suit her tastes; she is a conjurer of deep, emotional truths.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. The Word
2. No Time To Live
3. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
4. All My Love
5. Isn't It A Pity
6. Wish You Were Here
7. It Don't Come Easy
8. Maybe I'm Amazed
9. Salt Of The Earth
10. Nights In White Satin
11. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
12. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
13. Love Reign O'er Me (Live from the Kennedy Center Honors)